Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-17
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

toughs. A gang Of six entered Mrs. Shaw's
house Friday night and two men with re-
volvers covered the inmates, who had not
house.. When al III the Se booty tes the place
afforded had been secured the family was
forced to prepare supper for the party and
all ate as If 1t was their first meal that day.
They repaid this by compelling their hostess
TO drink up all the milk left In the pitcher:
Other similar outrages are reported and
to town with the report that the gang Wis.
tied his farm, killed, dressed and carried
away the larger part Of beef and stole q
horse.
A wholesale murder was committed
Friday night near Macon, Georgia, Capt.
Richard Woolfalk, we'll known farmer,
his wife, six children and Mrs. West, an
aunt OF Mrs. Woolfalk, being found MUIR
dered in the house Saturday morning,
threats cut Tom q. Wooifalk, son Of Capt:
Woolfalk by his first wife, is suspected of
the crime, and was arrested. The prisoner
was brought to Macon and safely lodged in
jail, where he talked Of the crime cody,
but made no admissions. His motive is
said to be the desire to gain possession of
sisters, children of the first wife.
At Atlanta, Ca, on the 9th, E. M.
Horne was instantly killed by Col. Bud
Veale. Col. Sam Venable and Veale were
engaged in a tisticutf over a personal
quarrel, when Horne and several other
gentlemen tried to separate them. Veale
fell to the floor with Venable on top, but
upwards twice. Horne was shot through
the brain. The affair causes intense ex-
element on account of the prominence Of
all parties connected with it.
A wild man has been captured at
Sargent, Ills. He had hair that measured
over five feet in length, and from appear
ances it had not been combed for years
bis beard was fully two feet long and COW
telligible, and no trace of where he came
from can be discovered. 1t took the COM
blned strength of a dozen men to hold him
IN order to bind his hands and feet. The
citizens are in a quandary what to do with
their catch.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson has accepted an invitation to
deliver the annual address at an agricul-
Gural fair OF the counties comprising the
Fifth congressional district of Illinois, to be
held at Woodstock, McHenry county. The
address will be delivered the 9th of
September next, and will be devoted to a
history OF the material progress of Illinois
and the influence exerted by that state
upon tho DEVELOPMENT of the great west.
At 1shpemirg, Mich, eight miners
attempted to ride down the shaft in the
Cleveland Iron mine against orders on the
11th When 200 feet from the bottom the
skip was suddenly overturned, and Ed
ward Cox, Topes Nominee and Herman
BERTHA were thrown to the bottom of the
shaft and instantly killed. Robert Trudgen
Herman Anderson, Alex Anderson and
Andrew Oleberg were seriously injured and
are now in the hospital.
A Quincy, Ill.,, dispatch of the 9Th,
saysJ. Albrecht, murderer, confined in jail
awaiting trial, committed suicide in his
cell by cutting his throat with a razor
which he had stolen from an inmate of the
jackson, Miss, to kill his divorced wife and
her husband, and in shooting at the
woman's husband he hit and killed young
Martin Currier, q son of his wife by her
present husband.
At Baltimore, Md, Sunday night,
Charles Hopkins, arrayed himself as a
ghost to scare party of workmen in a
brickyard. All but one fed, and he called
on the ghost to halt; not being obeyed he
and fell to the ground, the ball having
entered the ghosts mouth and lodged
behind his ear. Hopkins was taken to a
hospital, and the shooter arrested.
William Carson, deputy sheriff of
Conejos county, COL, well known through
out the west as the eldest son Of the re-
nowned Kit Carson, was murdered last
Thursday by a Mexican named Vigil,
a notorious character. Carson had a war
rant for Vigil's arrest, and when he at
While doing this Vigil snatched a gun and
dubbed Carson to death.
AT Louisville, KY, on Monday the
tobacco trade Of the city held meeting
and sent out circulars to tho tobacco men in
all the other markets Of the state, request
ing them to cooperate with them in sign
ing petition to President Cleveland asking
in view of Statistican Dodge's recent to-
bacco report, that he be removed from his
position in the department of agriculture.
At Eaton Rapids, Mich, Saturday
night, Frank Clark was shot to death by
John Williams. Clark insisted on being in
tr'oduced to q young woman with whom
Williams attended the Salvation army
meeting, but being refused, he assaulted
Williams and was shot. Both men are
members ofrespectab1e families, and Of gen.
orally quiet dispositions.
Hiram Schoonover, shot and killed
his mother-in-law, aged 70, at Brownsville.
Neb., on the 9th. He pretends that he
took his cmother-in-law for a skunk, as
he was watching for a supposed boy he sus-
pected Of stealing from his corn-crib. The
murdered woman had been heard to express
fear that her son-in-law would kill her.
Southern Manitoba was visited by a
terrific hail storm Saturday, which did
great damage to the crops. Some of the
hail stones measured seven inches in cir
cumference. The injury to the wheat has
been very severe, and number OF farmers
will not be able to reap the seed sown, 80
complete was the destruction.
At Nashville, Tenn, Saturday even
ing, Green Foster and Will Ferguson, two
convicts in the state penitentary, quarreled
over RI cents in game Of cards and Foster
cut Ferguson in the left side Of the neck
with long knife. The blow severed the
jugular vein and the larynx, and Ferguson
fell dead in the corridor.
! At2Tuscan, Arizona the anniversary
of Geronimo's surrender to Gen. Miles has
been set apart as day for the presenta-